I can't believe we pulled it off, We had buckets of rain the fortnight before , and the week before, and the day before
after ringing the travellers to let them know , they all said they were coming anyway. I dont think anybody was ready to see the entire lake flooded.
then the wind decided to clear a kilometre of "salt"that was the roughest,muddiest,hardest wettest slop Ive ever raced on
the rain had dissolved salt out of holes and cracks that had then refilled with black and brown ooze. we knocked out the Andrew Bates perpetual Marathon Shield in 15 pounding laps. Again Andrew was pipped at the line by little ol' me but what fun it was
The princess of speed finished her first race in style.
Id have to say this was worse than the awful beaches in Lytham, and SOS just ate it up like a real yacht
next day the wind shifted and we were flooded out in less than an hour by water moving at 10m per minute. A few 5's felt the need to sail until the last gasp
racing was abandoned and after a hunt of some salt ponds to start monitoring for drying some of us headed bush to find a few yabbies,wildflowers,sandalwood nuts(yum)and just some greenery. on returning we found that 2 ponds had started to drain and the boys were already sailing on 1.
we agreed that we would hang off till sunday and see if the wind and water held off. sadly some competitors had left early in the afternoon, so they missed an
ABSOLUTELY AWSOME day of racing
.We had half a pond of rollerskating smooth, WHITE ,DRY,salt with a fresh layer of fine white crystals,what we call grade AAA
We raced the Lightning Nickel Marathon in only 40 minutes. A similar sized course,with less tacks,for the minis ,had taken almost 2 hrs.
15 flying laps,the whole course tricky upwind and downwind legs,windshifts and 2 flying leaps over an old causeway on each lap
then we ripped out 5 races per class to give the needed 6 races to call an event, .
It was great to see crazy trav and Vic showing the way with some OTT 5's to challenge us old wheelbarrow boys and girls.
mind you they didnt get it all thier own way
Bazl will be putting the results up
we didnt get to run the minimini cup due to the strong winds, but we will try to run it soon. I can announce that the 40kph challenge is on as a minimini built from old blokart parts managed 44kph in one direction, maybe both ways next time
little stig has been working on her streamlining ,and is determind to up the chase speed.
One of my highlights was to see the number of new minis built locally in the last 18 months
.This is only the WA builds. and doesnt include the mini Explorers
